Sheffield is one of the cheapest places to rent in the UK

[speedy69]

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/regional-news/poole_least_affordable_for_rent_1_3911143

 

Sheffield (and Yorkshire in general) has come out one of the cheapest places to rent in the UK. Maybe people should be considering private rented rather than getting stuck in the quagmire which is social housing!

[Total Chaos]

How long before Chem1st comes along?

 

I private rented cost me £450 per month,now in social housing cost £240.So why would people want to?

[speedy69]

How long before Chem1st comes along?

 

I private rented cost me £450 per month,now in social housing cost £240.So why would people want to?

 

A lot of people out there have the means to private rent, social housing should be there until people atain those means.

[alchresearch]

Its worth noting the article relates to flat sharing, or lodging as it used to be known.

 

Now factor in the number of student properties in Sheffield compared to Poole and its easy to see how biased this article is.

[SheffieldSaz]

I work full time, on a reasonable wage and would not want to pay someone else's mortgage by private renting. I live in Southey and they're charging £500 a month for a two bedroom flat. When the chances are, their mortgage on a property like that is about £250 a month.

[Stepman]

Sheffield will become even cheaper for rented property if the student numbers decline.

[Bulgarian]

Maybe people should be considering private rented rather than getting stuck in the quagmire which is social housing!

 

or having the 25+ year burdon of a mortgage

[chem1st]

We have massive inequality that boosts the average wage, the median wage is far lower.

 

Renting is very very expensive, especially for those of modest means.

 

And also consider, whilst we may pay less as a %, we earn less, so overall were left with even less disposable income.

 

Only a couple of decades ago, over half the people up here lived in social housing. Now it is less than a quarter, over half of the social housing here has been lost since the 1980s. And more and more immigrants are given social housing at the expensive of born and bred Sheffielders and Yorkshiremen.

 

The living standard of our youth, and older adults has declined severely, 20 years ago, your children could have got a cheap place to rent and raise children of their own very quickly, now they are denied access to affordable housing, they must wait for years, they must put off having children, driving a car etc.

 

Landlords, people exercising the right to buy and our politicians are to blame, they should be ashamed of theirselves. They should be looked upon with contempt.

 

You reap what you sow, and the coming social ills are not 'unexpected'.

 

The coming generations need to put right what our elders made wrong. And we need to make a better future for the next generations. We need to stop exploiting the future generations for short term gain. We should not be greedy so and so's like our elders. We are better than that.

[Shaunedy]

We have massive inequality that boosts the average wage, the median wage is far lower.

 

Renting is very very expensive, especially for those of modest means.

 

And also consider, whilst we may pay less as a %, we earn less, so overall were left with even less disposable income.

 

Only a couple of decades ago, over half the people up here lived in social housing. Now it is less than a quarter, over half of the social housing here has been lost since the 1980s. And more and more immigrants are given social housing at the expensive of born and bred Sheffielders and Yorkshiremen.

 

The living standard of our youth, and older adults has declined severely, 20 years ago, your children could have got a cheap place to rent and raise children of their own very quickly, now they are denied access to affordable housing, they must wait for years, they must put off having children, driving a car etc.

 

Landlords, people exercising the right to buy and our politicians are to blame, they should be ashamed of theirselves. They should be looked upon with contempt.

 

You reap what you sow, and the coming social ills are not 'unexpected'.

 

The coming generations need to put right what our elders made wrong. And we need to make a better future for the next generations. We need to stop exploiting the future generations for short term gain. We should not be greedy so and so's like our elders. We are better than that.

 

Are you for real mate??

[manofstrad]

We have massive inequality that boosts the average wage, the median wage is far lower.

 

Renting is very very expensive, especially for those of modest means.

 

And also consider, whilst we may pay less as a %, we earn less, so overall were left with even less disposable income.

 

Only a couple of decades ago, over half the people up here lived in social housing. Now it is less than a quarter, over half of the social housing here has been lost since the 1980s. And more and more immigrants are given social housing at the expensive of born and bred Sheffielders and Yorkshiremen.

 

The living standard of our youth, and older adults has declined severely, 20 years ago, your children could have got a cheap place to rent and raise children of their own very quickly, now they are denied access to affordable housing, they must wait for years, they must put off having children, driving a car etc.

 

Landlords, people exercising the right to buy and our politicians are to blame, they should be ashamed of theirselves. They should be looked upon with contempt.

You reap what you sow, and the coming social ills are not 'unexpected'.

 

The coming generations need to put right what our elders made wrong. And we need to make a better future for the next generations. We need to stop exploiting the future generations for short term gain. We should not be greedy so and so's like our elders. We are better than that.

 

Landlords are in the business of letting their property (at the risk of it being trashed by scumbags) to earn a living. Anything wrong with that?

 

People exercising their right to buy did the right thing IMO. Anyone not taking advantage of the opportunity was a complete mug.